Peter Tosh on black
Peter Tosh50 quotes“My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.”
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I don’t owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every ‘ting is fine.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh What the Rastaman represents is positivity.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh It can be beautiful, if you just be yourself.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh I am good. I live good. I think good. I don’t have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh I’m on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh Reggae must be lived, not played. It is a lifebeat everytime.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh It is only the truth that can make a man free, it is only the truth that can make a man live.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh I am not a politician. I only suffer the consequences.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh My songs is hard stuff which politicians don’t want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?
Peter ToshPeter Tosh My earthly parents don’t know my potential or my divine qualities. They weren’t taught how to diagnose or be aware of such things.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh Me is what them call illegitimate, that mean say me is a criminal, bomba rassclaat! That’s why me go write a song called ‘Illegitimate Children.’ It took me years to find out I was one.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don’t know what the word ‘education’ means. ‘Educo’ means to bring out.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, ‘Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,’ made me sick.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake.
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